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Will the British postcard become extinct?
Both the BBC and The Guardian's have written articles today on the waning popularity of postcards, as people are sending e-mails and text messages instead. "Officially invented by a Hungarian, Emanuel Herrmann, in 1869, the idea of illustrated cards was taken up with most enthusiasm in Victorian Britain, joining Gothic architecture and landscape gardening as fields in which the country excelled. The country's uniquely postcard-related achievements include the invention in 1902 of the "divided back". With the address taking up half of the writing area, brief postcard scribbles became the precursor to today's cryptic text messages. "If the British postcard did become extinct, we would lose for ever something of great importance to the nation," said Chris Mottershead of Thomson Holidays, which commissioned the poll." [The Guardian's] I guess that MMS Postcards being sent by the post offices (so far in Netherlands and German), is no consolation. |
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